Score, 2011 Score of Le Clash, 2010, for barrel organ, carved into wall In the referenced work, performers play renditions of the song Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash through a barrel organ and a music box outside a derelict concert hall in Bordeaux. Photo © Sylvain Deleu
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Anri Sala is a contemporary artist who came to prominence for videos and films mining his personal experience to reflect on the social and political change taking place in his native Albania. Since his early works, Sala has attached a growing importance to sound, creating remarkable works in which he recasts sound’s relationship to the image. Linked to this development is Sala’s long-standing interest in performance, and particularly musical performance. A central premise of this...